Chicago firm that resolves ransomware attacks had rogue workers carrying out their own hacks, FBI says

Chicago firm that resolves ransomware attacks had rogue workers carrying out their own hacks, FBI says

Rogue employees of a Chicago company that specializes in negotiating ransoms to mitigate cyber attacks were carrying out their own piracy in a plot to extort millions of dollars from a series of companies, prosecutors say. Kevin Tyler Martin, a ransomware threat negotiator for River North-based DigitalMint at the time of the alleged conspiracy, was among two men indicted in the scheme. A suspected accomplice who wasn’t indicted was also employed…